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Feb 08, 2022

Employment Report: U.S. Escapes Omicron, but Canada does not

Let’s take a closer look at the January employment report. As previously noted, the economy added an incredible 467,000 jobs in January, far above estimates of 150,000. Recently, the White House along with several analysts, suggested the number could have even been negative because of Omicron. In addition, the February 2nd ADP report showed a shocking drop of 301,000 jobs. Something feels amiss here.
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Jan 11, 2022

Employment Report: "It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again"

There was an American baseball player named Yogi Berra who was famous for his witty statements which were either self-contradictory or redundant. One of them was “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” That’s the case with the December employment report compared to the November report in many ways.
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Dec 06, 2021

U.S. Employment Report: Full of Contradictions

The November employment report was very strong—but full of maddening contradictions. However, the mixed headline numbers can be explained if we get down into the weeds of the report a little bit.
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Nov 09, 2021

Economic Update: Good news in general but concerns on inflation

There is a lot of good news. The high-frequency indicators are showing a rebound in Q4. The October employment report was very strong, and very good news. But we still have a long way to go in the labor market, and the supply/demand imbalance is clearly driving wage inflation which is showing up in many measures
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Nov 02, 2021

US: The Economy Slows, Inflation Grows

The economy took a breather in the third quarter, as GDP slowed to a 2.0% q/q annualized rate, significantly weaker than already soft consensus estimates of 2.7%.
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Sep 22, 2021

US: Mixed Consumption, Pressure on Wages and Inflation

The retail sales report for August 2021 blew past expectations of falling -0.8% and instead rose +0.7% to a 15% y/y increase.
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